Portfolio Manager
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Portfolio Manager at Cengage developing product strategies for the education market. Leading product development and ensuring quality learning experiences for students and instructors.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a profitable product line and develop strategic business plans.
- Provide product leadership, representing the portfolio and customers across audiences.
- Use data to make market-informed business proposals, take mitigated risks, and guide strategic decisions.
- Defines long-term goals based on research and trends, and sets metrics-driven milestones, making connections across datasets and courses to devise solutions to complex business challenges.
- Balance experience, market knowledge, and insights to make impactful decisions and long-term plans.
- Translate priorities into organized end-to-end development plans with budgets, resources, performance goals, and key checkpoints.
- Provide project team direction, facilitating effective communication, and ensuring timely delivery of multiple products simultaneously within scope and budget.
- Cultivate an environment of creativity and collaboration.
- Deliver quality learning experiences to students and instructors.
- Establish and maintain relationships with key authors and adoption decision makers to gain customer insights, strengthen adoptions, and identify new talent.
Requirements:
- BA or BS Degree
- Minimum 5 years in product management, product development or other relevant portfolio management role
- Cross-functional team leadership experience
- Ability to inspire change through influence; honed social skills
- Self-discipline with a high degree of accountability
- Strong financial analysis and modeling skills and an understanding of business metrics
- Natural curiosity and willingness to learn paired with a desire for continuous improvement
- Confirmed written and verbal abilities enabling the preparation and presentation of information and recommendations to a diverse and senior level audience.
Benefits:
- Cengage is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals.
- Our job applicants are considered regardless of any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.
- Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process.
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